Thanks for the input.  You guys are the greatest.

You know how I got started in collecting.  I 
bought this anime show called Dual! on DVD.  I 
know, the show is an unoriginal, schmaltzy, 
Tenchi-Evangelion ripoff but, I liked it.  The 
only other anime shows I had seen up to that time 
were Escaflowne and Evangelion.  (I'm sorry but 
Evangelion is the dreariest show I have ever seen. 
 I bought the entire eight volume set piece by 
piece from Buy.Com hoping someday it was going to 
lighten up.  Shinji your a fricken wimp.  But I 
digress.) This was about three years ago.  Anyway, 
I started surfing the web looking for Dual! 
websites and I ran across Hobby Shop K.  Hobby 
Shop K was selling these things called cels.  
Well, I e-mail the owner asking "What the heck are 
these Dual! cels? They look like original art."  
The owner e-mails me back indicated that the cels 
are cels used in the production of the show.  So I 
tell him I want to buy 5 of the cels he has for 
sale.  I send him my address and ask about 
payment.  He tells me he was preparing for a trip 
to Anime Expo in Long Beach.  Since I live in 
Orange County, he asked if I could bring cash and 
meet him there that way I'd save on shipping and 
he could hand deliver the cels.
So I go down to Long Beach wait in line and 
register for entrance into Anime Expo.  All I 
could say at the time was Holy Cow what the heck 
is going on here.  I am not in Kansas anymore.  To 
make a long story short, I got my cels from Hobby 
Shop K, bought a few more cels, a gift for my 
girlfriend, gawked at a couple of scantily clad 
woman (which I now know where cosplayers), and 
bought a couple of  CDs.  Since I had committed to 
going to a movie later in the day, I couldn't stay 
to watch any shows or attend the cel discussion 
being held in the evening.

Over the next year I manage to buy enough cels to 
fill up two celbooks.   Anyway, I stopped 
collecting after that one year.  Cash was short at 
the time and dates aren't cheap.

But now I'm back with an improved cash flow 
situation.  I'll try to fill up two more celbooks 
but only with good quality cels.  I haven't been 
back to an Anime Expo but maybe someday. 

Thanks again for all those who contributed to my 
re-education of cels.